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supposed to be the lemale, of the same age, was 4 ft. high. Plants, in theLondon nurseries, are 5s. each ; and at Bollwyller, 3 francs.

5 5. P. gra'ndis Dougl. The great Silver Fir.

Synonymes. Pinus grandis Dougl. MS., Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 94.; A'bies gritndis Lindl. in PennyCi/cl., No. 3.; the great Californian Fir. .

Engravings . Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 9+.; our Jig.QQio. from Lambert’s Pinus, vol. m., and Jig. /-46., fromDouglas’s specimens in the herbarium of the Horticultural Society, and the tree in the garden.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves flat, obtuse, emargi-nate, pectinate, silvery beneath. Cones cylin-drical ; braeteoles ovate, acuminate, irregu-

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larly dentate, very short. {Don in Lamb. Pin.)

Leaves from f in. to 1 in. long. Cones, ac-cording to Lambert, 6Jin. long and 3Jin.broad; but in Douglas’s specimens the largestcones are only 3J in. long, and 2 in. broad,theothers being much smaller. Scale fin. long,and f in. broad. Seed small; with the wing,fin. long, and fin. broad. A native of thenorth-west of America; discovered by Dou-glas, and introduced by him in 1831. 2246

Description. A noble tree, akin to P. balsamea, growing from 170 ft.to 200 ft. high, with a brown bark. Leaves pectinate and spreading, linear,roundish at the apex, emarginate, callous on the margin, quite entire; greenand shining above, silvery beneath, somewhat dilated towards the apex;1 in. long. Cones lateral solitary, cylindrical, obtuse, very similar to P.Cedrus, hut larger, 6 in. long, of a chestnut-brown colour ; scales transverse,very broad, lamelliform, deciduous, stalked, incurved on the margin, quiteentire. Braeteoles ovate-acuminate, irregularly crenulate on the margin,much shorter than the scales, included. Seeds oblong, with a coriaceoustesta; wing very broad, axe-shaped, truncate at the apex, slightly scariousand membranaceous, brittle, shining, pale. (Lamb, and Dougl. in Comp.

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